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Lib Dems urge reprieve for CHCs
Liberal Democrats have urged the government to abandon its decision to abolish community health councils and reform them instead.
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Mac, not Machiavelli
Scotland's new chief medical officer is defecting from the BMA. Poacher turned gamekeeper, or just an honest diplomat, asks Colin Wright
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Dear Mel. . .
In HSJ of 27 July, a woman wrote in to 'Dear Mel' to say that her hospital social club had been used on one occasion by women for a hen night (with male strippers) and by men (probably with female strippers) on another. Why is it, then, 'a blast' for ...
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Low-key union debate in ritual attack on PFI
The Trades Union Congress issued a ritual denunciation of the private finance initiative last week at the end of a low-key congress overshadowed by the fuel crisis.
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Public services 'shouldn't be run privately'
Unison has claimed that more than 60 per cent of the public believe that public services should be run using directly employed workers.
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Days like this
Staff increment proposal . . . 'presumptuous'staff ads. . . Clarke says watershed ahead. . .
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Pump up the volume
Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate
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It'll never get well if you picket
While the country struggled along in grudging acceptance of the fuel blockade, two regional public health directors tackled the picket lines head on.
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Get some in
Alan Milburn says he wants a new drive to boost bed numbers - but how easy will it be to achieve this at grassroots level, asks Thelma Agnew
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Reviewing the reviews
Few managers - even those who have struggled long and hard to push through unpopular acute beds cuts - are willing to contemplate that their service reviews might have to be scrapped in the light of Mr Milburn's instruction to plan for increases.
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Fast and loose
As the third wave of PMS pilots gets on its way, doctors'leaders are complaining that their advice has not been heeded in drafting the new contracts. Ann McGauran reports
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A sorry tale of crying wolf which will haunt Labour
Using the NHS to end the fuel crisis will do little to woo back voters
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Not quite the whole tooth
Dental strategy is welcome, but HAs must act now to fill gaps in provision
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Bring on the clowns
In the beginning was the administrator: born to regulate the NHS and check that intended actions matched written policies, using not judgement but the rule book. The service was over-regulated and under-scrutinised: once the rules had been met, little was done to check that progress matched intended aims - especially ...
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Unto the breach brave Alan - with a red card
In between getting back from France with my tan intact - despite the 100 franc limit on purchases of you-know-what - and setting off for Charlie Kennedy's Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, I managed to dig out a reference which had been bugging me throughout the great fuel crisis and ...